RPGs worth playing

[Humodour]

In the past year or so I've been pretty starved of good hefty RPGs to play. I've done the typical ones to death (IE games, FO series, NWN, KoTOR), however I'm quite sure I've missed one or two great games over the past 7 years or so.

 

So what I am looking for is a list of the not so well known RPGs which you've personally played and enjoyed in the last 7 years. If I can find just one or two new great games to play from this thread, it will be worth while.

[Kor Qel Droma]

Planescape: Torment is the first thing that comes to mind.

[Atreides]

Get a console and try some of the RPGs out there. Some of the RPGs out there are really different from what you'd typically find on PCs. Broaden horizons and all that.

[Hurlshort]

Is this for the PC only? I say go get some hall of fame mods for NWN. Did you play Morrowind? It's a different style, but a lot of people love it and it still looks great.

[jaguars4ever]

Planescape: Torment is the first thing that comes to mind.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I believe that would fall under his IE categorization, Kor.

[SteveThaiBinh]

The Quest for Glory series' last game, QfG5: Dragonfire, just scrapes into your time frame with a 1998 release. The five games taken together are an epic RPG, and terrific fun to play, though the graphics are outdated now.

[Meshugger]

I recently played Baten Kaitos on the Gamecube, which was suprisingly good. Excellent soundtrack is also a plus.

Edited October 30, 2005 by Meshugger

[Nameless One]

Anachronox...has some of the most memorable charcters, a very good story (set in cyberpunk-sifi), is extremly funny, and has the most entertaining cut-scenes ever (a machinima-film was made out of them, which won some awards at the machinima film festival 2002)

 

gameplay-wise it's more a japanese-rpg in the way combat and charcter-building works but I never saw this as a problem

 

but there are some:

you have to patch it to enjoy it (with the latest unofficial-patch)

you have to find it to buy it to play it

some of the gameplay-mechanics will peeve you (but that's nothing in comparison with the joy you will have)

 

and now some direct-linky-right-click-and-download-propaganda

the trailer of trailers...when you don't like this you are probably a bad person

this is a gameplay-trailer

this one will show you the world (and parts of the world that got cut through, what is part of the never ending struggle between a publishers needs and and developers ideas)

[Pidesco]

Arcanum is great. And awful too in some ways.

[CoM_Solaufein]

Arcanum. I like how it mixes fantasy role playing with the coming of the industrial age.

[CoM_Solaufein]

Also another is Rage of Mages 2 Necromancer.

[roshan]

First of all, the three greatest rpgs ever made: torment, fallout, fallout 2.

 

Then you could try the baldurs gate and icewind dale series.

 

If you want action rpgs, then nox, revenant, diablo and diablo 2 are all great.

 

Other than that you can try septerra core.

[metadigital]

... And Ultima ][. "

[Musopticon?]

Anything from Jeff Vogel http://www.spidweb.com/

[Petay]

Mus?, those games that you linked to on that page, are they buyable, or is that right there all they consist of, as in they are free games?

 

EDIT: Ah, i see i should have looked around the site a bit first :">

Edited October 30, 2005 by Petay

[Leferd]

Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines.

 

Jagged Alliance 2

[mr insomniac]

Myth: The Fallen Lords, and Myth II: Soulblighter. Never played Myth III, so can't comment on it, and these aren't RPGs, but they're fantasy and great fun.

[metadigital]

I like to roleplay my games of chess. Sometimes I am a Pasha from the Eastern realms, or even Samuel L Jackson in Fresh, but mostly as Deep Blue ...

[BattleCookiee]

If you want action rpgs, then nox, revenant, diablo and diablo 2 are all great.

 

Or more modern (and better): Dungeon Siege 1 and 2

 

Other suggestion would be Silver

Unfortunately it doesn't work on a PC with XP, nor with one with a better card than a GeForce...

 

So you need some old PC stashed somewhere to still play it...

[mkreku]

Gothic, Gothic 2, Gothic 2 Gold (coming out in November and includes an expansion that's more of a totally new game) and soon Gothic 3 might be what you're looking for.

[Gabrielle]

Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines.

 

Jagged Alliance 2

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Bloodlines is good.

 

Older games like NOX, Diablo are great.

[Tel Aviv]

You may think me a frigid puritan but, like bubble wrap, Hack 'n' Slash is the invention of the devil.

[Baley]

Nah mang,Satan would invent something totally sweet like Torment.

 

 

Anyway,the new Bard's Tale was pretty funny.

Edited October 31, 2005 by Baley

[metadigital]

What's wrong with bubble wrap?

[Haitoku]

Are you only talking about PC games?

 

There are some really good console RPGs...

 

 

But as for PC games... I played this really old RPG along time ago, its a pretty old Monolith game called "Septerra Core." I never finished it, but it was sorta interesting (from what I can remember).